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- Schiehallion (/ʃiːˈhæli.ən/; Scottish Gaelic: Sìth Chailleann, IPA: [ʃiˈxaʎən̪ˠ]) is a prominent cone-shaped mountain in the Breadalbane region of the...
- 56°40′4″N 4°5′52″W / 56.66778°N 4.09778°W / 56.66778; -4.09778 The Schiehallion experiment was an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density...
- The Schiehallion oilfield is a deepwater offs**** oilfield approximately 175 kilometres (110 mi) west of the Shetland Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean...
- measured with any accuracy (within about 20% of the correct value) in the Schiehallion experiment in the 1770s, and within 1% of the modern value in the Cavendish...
- by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774. It was still occasionally defended through the...
- name Caledonia is echoed in the place names of Dunkeld, Rohallion, and Schiehallion. The Great Conspiracy constituted a seemingly coordinated invasion against...
- of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's measurements collected during the Schiehallion experiment. Hutton was born on Percy Street in Newcastle upon Tyne in...
- during the summer of 1773. Mason selected Schiehallion at which to conduct what became known as the Schiehallion experiment, which was carried out primarily...
- 1774, Maskelyne was confirming Newton's theory of gravitation at and on Schiehallion mountain in Scotland, and he needed to measure elevations on the mountain's...
- Maskelyne proposed to the Royal Society what was to become known as the Schiehallion experiment (named after the Scottish mountain on which it was performed)...